# entity
## English
### Etymology

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: en‧ti‧ty

### Noun

entity (plural entities)
* That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
** 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
* The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
* (databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
* The state or quality of being or existence.
    The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
* A spirit, ghost, or the like.
** 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
* (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:entity

#### Derived terms

* bioentity
* entitative
* entitic
* entitize
* entity alignment
* entitylike
* Entity List
* entity-relationship diagram
* entity relationship diagram
* entity-relationship model
* entity tag
* first-class entity
* geopolitical entity
* legal entity
* micronational entity
* molecular entity
* nonentity
* political entity
* presentity
* second-class entity
* subentity
* superentity
* third-class entity
* Zionist entity

#### Collocations

* legal entity
* single entity
* separate entity
* political entity
* public entity
* governmental entity
* corporate entity
* independent entity
* foreign entity
* unknown entity
* evil entity

#### Translations

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#### See also

* duality
* relationship
* trinity

### Further reading

* entity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “entity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “entity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “entity” (US) / “entity” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
* “entity”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
* “entity”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛntɪtɪ]

### Noun

entity
* inflection of entita:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural